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Re: Best cover ever?

Radiohead did a live version of 'Nobody Does it Better' by Carly Simon a few years back for MTV. It was around OK Computer period, I think for 'Most Wanted'.

That was pretty great.

Kevtheone | 10 Jun '04, 10:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeh they do that cover quite a lot. the 'wonderwall' cover by ryan adams was pretty great, and NIN didn't do too badly with joy division's 'dead souls'.

waves | 10 Jun '04, 11:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I'm told NIN's cover of Gary Numan's 'Metal' is good too, though I've not heard the original.

Do like 'Wonderwall' though, and I hate the original.

But at the moment I'm *still* loving No Doubt's 'It's My Life'...

martbean | 10 Jun '04, 19:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh jesus christ no
that fucking wonderwall cover
it's only marginally better than oasis' version with that cunt Noel on vocals

Now, Cat Power's version............

killykill | 20 Jun '04, 01:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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how about mike flower pops version of wonderwall. hehe

carbootsale | 18 Aug '04, 19:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Absolutely. As soon as I saw the subject title I thought of that one. A great cover of a great song.

shatters | 15 Jun '04, 13:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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in heaven (lady in the radiator song) by the pixies ranks up there methinks, i love that.

jimmio_jim_jim | 10 Jun '04, 12:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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it was actually by zwan, sung by the guy from chavez. napalm death - nazi punks fuck off, faith no more - let's lynch the landlord, ruth copeland - gimme shelter, dillinger escape plan - come to daddy and the gourds - gin & juice are all up there.

something_enigmatic | 10 Jun '04, 12:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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FNM - Easy, best cover ever. Full Stop.

james_delve | 10 Jun '04, 14:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Brand New Cadillac - The Clash

SpookyLizard | 10 Jun '04, 15:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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johnny cash - hurt.

especially coz the original is so shit.

adumcs | 10 Jun '04, 16:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the manics covering camper van beethovens take the skin heads bowling.

theyre one odd band

camper van beethoven, not the manics

Mwng | 10 Jun '04, 16:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The original is so shit? Grow up.

Raanraals | 10 Jun '04, 16:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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what's the name of the sting song he covered? the cover is great, but christ knows what the original sounds like. apparently the guy from busted's 'other' band have covered johnny cash's cover of hurt. nice one dude.

something_enigmatic | 10 Jun '04, 19:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i hung my head?

alcxxk | 14 Jun '04, 00:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It's called 'The Long Rider' and I don't think String ever actually released a version of it himself - think he wrote it especially for JC.

I like that song muchly, was a bit upset when I relised String was involved. Silly snobby bitch that I am I suppose

*sighs*
Mondays make me doubt myself...
x

pollydoodle | 21 Jun '04, 11:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Definately Cash with hurt. How much more heartfelt and touching can you get with a laimo, fake angsty metal original? He's the master of covers though, I mean making a Sting song good?

hopeless_states | 10 Jun '04, 20:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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er.....
NIN's "Hurt" is one of the least 'metal' songs of theirs i can actually think of....

killykill | 20 Jun '04, 01:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah, it's probably got to be the Pixies' "In Heaven..." for me. I also really liked the White Stripes' "Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" but I have a feeling I may well be alone in that department...

Smileadelic | 10 Jun '04, 16:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Nah, I really like it to. It's made it onto the covers album I'm compiling, which if anyone's interested, currently looks like this:

No Doubt - It's My Life
Foo Fighters - Down in the Park
GNR - Live & Let Die
Orgy - Blue Monday
Gun - Word Up
EMF - I'm A Believer
Ash - Get Ready
Black Crowes - Hard to Handle
Offspring - Smash It Up
NIN - Metal
RATM - Renegades
Buffalo Tom - Going Underground
Gary Jules - Mad World
FLC - We Have All the Time in the World
Wonder Stuff - Dizzy
White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
POTUSA - Kick Out The Jams
Radiohead - Nobody Does it Better
Flaming Lips - Knives Out
Faith No More - Easy
The Wildhearts - White Christmas (bonus hidden track :) )

(disclaimer: not all of these are my choice)

martbean | 10 Jun '04, 19:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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If you're gonna have a Foo Fighters track, I think it must be "Baker Street". Not saying it's the best cover ever, but its good. Especially for the Foos, who I don't like at the best of times. Their "Have A Cigar" rocked too... infact, they're a damn good band when they're not playing their own songs! :-)

JonathanD | 10 Jun '04, 19:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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How come you've heard so many Foos songs when you don't like them? :)

You're right that 'Have A Cigar' is good though, but I'm not too sure about 'Baker Street'. Definitely prefer DITP, it's got a damn cool groove to it.

martbean | 10 Jun '04, 20:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I've just a very clever lad, that's all. :-)

JonathanD | 10 Jun '04, 20:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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See, my cleverness is proven by my fantastic spelling there...

JonathanD | 10 Jun '04, 20:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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cos theyre one of the biggest bands in hte universe and its impossible to avoid them?

alcxxk | 14 Jun '04, 00:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I was just about to say Foo Fighters covering Pink Floyd's 'Have A Cigar' is fucking superb. And their own songs are great too....provided they were releaesd pre 2001...

Youdontknow | 11 Jun '04, 13:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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mr. raanral or whatever,

fuck off telling me to grow up - i voiced an opinion, MY OWN - which im completely entitled to. you clearly disagree. if you disagree, perhaps voice this disagreement in an eloquent manner, rather than being a patronising, condesending and downright arrogant twat. i didnt say "the original was so shit and what i say goes and anything any1 else thinks is wrong" did i?

no, so therefore i dont deserve to be told to grow up. if anything, your partronising comment has only served to make YOU look like a muso, rather than me.

ridiculous

adumcs | 10 Jun '04, 19:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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sorry that may have been a touch aggressive mr raanrals,im having a bad revision day, cant be arsed to start an argument.

accept apologies,

x

adumcs | 10 Jun '04, 19:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Like a Virgin (it's so hilarious)

The Fog Band - These Boots Are Made For Walking

roguebrogue | 10 Jun '04, 20:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm sorry but reel big fish's take one me is truly the greatest, im jut surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but Ryan Adam's Wonderwall is great too.

breadfan | 10 Jun '04, 22:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I agree.

And I am kinda surprised noone has mention Me First & The Gimme Gimmes yet, either....

Other than that - I WOULD have to say - the best cover band ever is:

Jodie Rocks.

*shameless self plug*

Ezra | 11 Jun '04, 01:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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The Detroit Cobras version of Otis Reddings Shout Bama Lama,indeed,anything on their Life,Love And Leaving album,all covers.

cadd | 11 Jun '04, 01:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Accepted. Apologies for the terse "Grow up".

Raanraals | 11 Jun '04, 11:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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if i was making such a compilation (and it is likely) then i'd probably have:

Ash: 'Gimme Some Truth' instead of 'Get Ready',
White Stripes: 'Stop Breaking Down' instead of 'Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself'
Robert Wyatt doing 'I'm A Believer' instead of EMF (or better still Robert Wyatt doing 'Love' by John Lennon...hang on wasn't 'Shipbuilding' originally a Costello song? Well if so that as well...)
Flaming Lips: 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' instead of 'Knives Out'

and perhaps throw in Cinerama's 'Yesterday Once More', Melt Banana's 'Monkey Man' and some of the few thousand others that are really good...

thommo | 14 Jun '04, 00:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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how about 'introduction to charlie' by melt banana? the damned's 'neat, neat, neat' played at twice the speed. nice. and while we're at it, tatu's cover of 'how soon is now' and daphne & celeste's version of 'school's out', just for a little pop subversion.

something_enigmatic | 15 Jun '04, 13:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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and the Melt Banana version of Kraftwerk's 'Showroom Dummies'! Or the Sesame Street song 'Everybody Wash'!

on a theme tune tip, The Dickies 'Banana Splits (Tra La La Song)', Ikara Colt's 'White Horses' and The Breeder's version of 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'...

thommo | 15 Jun '04, 17:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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and for that matter (tho not a themetune) - the Breeders' cover of "Happiness is a Warm Gun" too - leaves you with absolutely zero reason to ever put the Beatles' original on again after hearing it....
(was 'Head To Toe' the breeders' own song, too?)

and funny the damned and melt-banana were mentioned in the same breath there too: the cover M-B played live last year of "Love Song" was an absolute fucking riot :D
and their version of "we will rock you". and "sufing usa"...they do seem to pick the best covers to do, that lot ;)

The_Kidz | 22 Jun '04, 13:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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*they do seem to pick the best covers to do, that lot ;)*

or perhaps because they're just generally brilliant anyway. if anybody knows where i can get a copy of any of those MB covers then please say...

p.s. Stranglers - Walk On By

thommo | 23 Jun '04, 10:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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'surfin usa' - off "15,000 Miles at Light Velocity", a live-set album on Tzadik, after 'Charlie' came out

'we will rock you' - off a recent Queen tribute lp, dunno the name ("Thunderbolts & Lightning" possibly, or that may be another one) or label though...

both are likely to be about on soulseek tho, i ought to see if love song turned up there too..

The_Kidz | 27 Jun '04, 21:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i thought MB covered 'Killer Queen' on that 'Dynamite With a Laserbeam' Queen tribute compilation, although that's probably the one you mean, i guess. dunno where to find it though.

And i'll try and get round to buying a copy of '25 Bands cover 25 Songs To Trash Their Way To Sesame Street' or whatever it's called.

thommo | 30 Jun '04, 20:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh i like that ash cover- haven't thought about that one for years!

Alexander | 17 Jun '04, 23:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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All along the watchtower

mighty_wizardsleeves | 11 Jun '04, 10:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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dunno about best ever, but foo fighters baker street always makes me smile when i hear it.

haveyouforgotten | 11 Jun '04, 15:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Well, I can't say the BEST, but I really like The Nekromantix cover of 'Light My Fire', they simulate the organ solos with guitar :P

Six_nightmares | 11 Jun '04, 23:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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As do Pearl Jam when they do Baba O'Riley. Very nice indeed...

martbean | 12 Jun '04, 00:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Robert Wyatt - I'm A Believer
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
Wildhearts - Cheers
Caffeine - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Fear Factory - Dog Day Sunrise
Napalm Death - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Faith No More - Easy

N.

lanky | 12 Jun '04, 14:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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and Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the Cradle

N.

lanky | 12 Jun '04, 14:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oasis - I Am The Walrus

Northern_Soul | 12 Jun '04, 15:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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you gotta love Faith No More - Easy

legends

Aimee | 12 Jun '04, 21:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh God there are so many.

Idlewild - I Found That Essence Rare
The Field Mice - Burning World
The Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
Silver Sun - Too Much Too Little Too Late
The Cure - Foxy Lady
The Wedding Present - Pleasant Valley Sunday
Manic Street Preachers - Charles Windsor
Nirvana - Molly's Lips
Teenage Fanclub - The Ballad Of John And Yoko
The Human League - You've Lost That Loving Feeling
Girls Aloud - Girls On Film
Therapy - Isolation
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Ambition
Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven
Oasis - I Am The Walrus

And probably a million others that don't come to mind yet.

Just don't say Candy Flip's 'Strawberry Fields Forever', please, NO. That is just wrong.

domgourlay | 12 Jun '04, 23:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Rufus Wainwright's cover of Across the Universe is pretty good.

josh | 12 Jun '04, 23:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i would have to say slipknot- slipknot cause the only reason i bought that album when i first saw it, casue i had never heard any of their songs but i bought cause i liked the look of the cover

slipknot_mm | 13 Jun '04, 20:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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idlewild seriously cover Go4? cunts.

ill dump a few into the fray:
the damned: Help!
mr bungle: nothing compares 2 u
johnny cash: monkey gone to heaven
nirvana: love buzz
im surprised noones said muse: feeling good. or have they?
deftones: tired of sex (they did it at my request at wembley arena and almost split up cos the results were so bad)
and of cousre hurt.

alcxxk | 14 Jun '04, 01:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yep, you can't argue with Hurt, then again, you can't with Joyrider's version of Rush Hour, either. Oh, and just to continue my sad fascination with long split-up Irish bands; Mexican Pets version of the Black Beauty theme.

Splendid!

Ian http://twang.topcities.com/

ian_distort | 14 Jun '04, 07:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"idlewild seriously cover Go4? cunts."

ooh listen to mr elitist...

haveyouforgotten | 14 Jun '04, 12:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i cant really imagine what theyd do to the song that wouldnt just make it shit

alcxxk | 14 Jun '04, 12:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Was goin to say 'Watchtower' but somebody beat me.

Soooo......

The Cramps-Lonesome Town

carrot_ram | 15 Jun '04, 12:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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its actually a faithful cover, nothing extraordinary, but fucking good live. not too bad a song to finish a set with. fact is, its better than any of the attempts deftones have made at covering a song, and you have to admit, the list is long.

haveyouforgotten | 15 Jun '04, 12:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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faithful covers=satan.
i just said the deftones cos it was hilariously inept.
what else have they done?

alcxxk | 15 Jun '04, 12:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Agree in principle, but sometimes faithful covers work if you wouldn't normally put the song and the "coverer" together: i.e. Radiohead "Nobody Does it Better", FNM "Easy", Manics "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head", etc.

I heard Lostprophets doing Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" last night and that worked for that reason.

shatters | 15 Jun '04, 13:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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nobody does it better was covered in greenwoody squeals.
true about FNM - that worked just cos pattons such a fucking great singer

alcxxk | 15 Jun '04, 13:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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faithlful covers = satan? surely its paying tribute to the original band., when covered well. cant deny the power of 'found that essence', but then i guess you can, because by the sounds you have seen the song performed live.

deftones have covered ALOT of tunes, loads by weezer (say it aint so, only in dreams, in my garage to name 3 ive seen live), everlong, smiths - some girls, depeche mode, duran duran, jawbox - savory with jonah from far (as was). only that last one really sticks in my memory as decent. so before you get started on idlewild..who's boys dont cry by the way is excellent.

haveyouforgotten | 15 Jun '04, 13:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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have you heard Hell is for Heroes version (of BTC)?
aside from the shitty vocals, THAT is a well worthwhile cover version.

alcxxk | 15 Jun '04, 14:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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On the negative side, that Muse cover of Nina Simone is aurely a stringing-up offence.

carrot_ram | 15 Jun '04, 14:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Sorry I meant surely not aurely. Doh.

carrot_ram | 15 Jun '04, 14:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i thought you meant aurally

alcxxk | 15 Jun '04, 14:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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No; I would've spelt it right!;~)

carrot_ram | 15 Jun '04, 14:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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don't know if anyone's mentioned em yet, but here goes:

jimi's cover of 'all along the watchtower', and maybe even 'sunshine of your love by cream' (excellent listen when caned)
'dead flowers', stones cover by townes van zandt off 'the big lebowski' soundtrack
aphex twin's remix of nine inch nails' 'at the heart of it all' 'the beauty of being numb' - they sound nothing like the originals, so they might as well be covers
massive attack's cover of 'just be thankful for what you've got' by william de vaughn (i think)

er, that's it...

slightlyoutoffocus | 15 Jun '04, 16:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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noone mentioned beck everyones gotta learn sometimes, which deserves an honorable mention i think. straight out beautiful cover.

haveyouforgotten | 15 Jun '04, 16:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh, and...
The Postal Service - Against All Odds.

thommo | 15 Jun '04, 18:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the foo fighters cover of Have a Cigar with brian may is pretty damn good
also, i really liked placebos Bigmouth Strikes Again by the smiths and Running Up That Hill by kate bush

pretty_vacant | 15 Jun '04, 21:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh hell yes.

alcxxk | 15 Jun '04, 22:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I would say the Moses version of the Smith's Shakespeare's Sister. Seriously disappointed when i heard the original...

stalker | 16 Jun '04, 16:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Anal Cunts version of the Bee Gees Staying Alive is a good 'un

cadd | 16 Jun '04, 17:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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this isn't best cover, but a very bad cover is busted - teenage kicks. why? WHY??????

sedna | 16 Jun '04, 20:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i know what you mean, sedna. that buzzcocks cover was never going to match up to busted's original material. why sully genius like 'crashed the wedding' with shit like teenage kicks?

Zoo1 | 16 Jun '04, 20:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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sorry to be picky, but...Undertones cover, surely?

*awaits chant of 'smartass'*

...but it was a rubbish cover, no? i couldn't watch without feeling physically sick. Had to leave the room. Their PR group knows what they're doing don't they...

ps. J Church - Girlfriend In A Coma

thommo | 16 Jun '04, 21:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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